On the coldest day of the year, Sweden's Minister for Justice steps out of his car & into a blizzard & disappears. That same
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Read by Andrew Mc Carthy. Eleven year-old Nick Vargas thinks his sucky life is being turned upside down
- his father has just remarried & moved his new wife & her daughter into his home in the soon-to-be-completed, Mangrove Hollow. & now, not only has Nick lost his bedroom to his wacky new step-sister Laurie (who lugs around this huge book about faeries)
- if that wasn't bad enough
- Nick's father actually wants him to spend time with her! So when an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a nixie with a giant problem
- & by giant, we mean the enormous, fire-breathing kind
- it's up to Nick & Laurie (with the help of Nick's older brother & a very familiar face from the original Spiderwick Chronicles) to come up with a plan. Will they be able to stop the rampaging beast before all of Mangrove Hollow goes up in smoke?